Chapter 2242

For the next two days, Zhou Andong didn't go anywhere, just holed up in the study of the four-entry courtyard writing the script. He almost pulled his hair out, racking his brains to recall every subtle plot detail of the TV series, not letting go of any place where flaws might appear.

Finally, he made it to the third day, which was the 29th. At five o'clock in the afternoon, the telephone ring broke the deathly silence in the study.

Zhou Andong reached out and grabbed the phone next to him, and Wu Hongkang's voice came from the receiver: "Old Zhou, Old Zhang and I are at the first bar, you hurry over."

Zhou Andong knew immediately that it must be about the CCTV disaster relief fundraising gala. When Jiang Yuyue and the others came that day, he actually forgot to ask them about the specific situation.

In fact, he had been suffocating at home for three days. Except for going out for a run every morning to exercise his bones and coming back to practice boxing, he spent the rest of his time in the study writing the script.

Since Old Wu and Old Zhang asked him to drink, it was a good opportunity to go out and relax, and it was also good to change his mind. So, he threw the pen in his hand, stood up and walked out.

"Wentian!" When he reached the first courtyard, Zhou Andong shouted at the security dormitory.

"Here!" Wang Wentian shouted in the room, and then ran out, followed by Yu Zhan and the other three.

"Go get the car!" Zhou Andong stepped out: "Go to the first bar."

Wang Wentian and Lian Kai went to the garage to get the car. Zhou Andong came to the entrance of the alley and stood there lighting a cigarette. Just after taking a puff, Wang Wentian drove the car out.

Zhou Andong opened the car door and got in, and Lian Kai and the others drove the Land Cruiser behind.

More than ten minutes later, Wang Wentian parked the car in the parking lot outside the first bar.

Zhou Andong got out of the car. He hadn't been here for a while. Looking up, he found that there were several more bars.

However, although the surrounding competitors emerged one after another like bamboo shoots after rain, the business of the first bar was still extremely hot, and it was not affected at all.

At this time, a girl's singing came from the lake behind, like the sound of nature, lingering in the air.

Zhou Andong turned his head and cast his gaze on the lake. The cruise ship was wandering in the center of the lake, and the bright lights on the ship were dazzling, reflecting the lake water around it with sparkling waves.

"Chairman Zhou!"

A waiter ran out of the bar in a hurry. He was still holding money in his hand, looking like he was going to buy something.

When he caught a glimpse of Zhou Andong standing at the entrance of the bar, he immediately stopped his steps and shouted respectfully.

Zhou Andong nodded with a smile, then asked: "Do you know which table Factory Manager Wu of Hongxing Winery and President Zhang of Qin Chi are at?"

"I know!" The waiter replied hurriedly: "They are at table 28."

"Thank you!" Zhou Andong said thank you, and then stepped into the bar.

As soon as he walked in, the greetings one after another were endless.

"Chairman Zhou!"

"Hello Chairman Zhou!"

"Welcome Chairman Zhou!"

Whether it was the waiters busy shuttling between guests or the waiters cleaning the tables, as long as they saw Zhou Andong's figure appear, they would stop their work in unison and raise their hands to greet him enthusiastically.

Zhou Andong nodded and responded with a smile while continuing to walk inside. Soon, he saw the figures of Wu Hongkang and Zhang Shenghui.

"Oh, Old Wu, Old Zhang, I missed you so much!"

"I said why I have nightmares every day these few days, so the problem is here." Zhang Shenghui hummed in his throat: "Being missed by someone like you who has no moral bottom line, it would be strange if I didn't have nightmares."

Zhou Andong sat down, picked up a bottle of iced Brave the World on the table, and then bit the cap with his teeth, "bang" and bit it open. Then he raised the bottle and took a big gulp. The icy liquid slid down his throat all the way, making him shiver and let out a comfortable sigh.

After putting down the beer bottle, Zhou Andong wiped the spilled wine from the corner of his mouth, squinted at Zhang Shenghui and smiled.

"I don't have this thing called a moral bottom line, and I can't find it on you, Zhang Shenghui. I guess only Old Wu still retains a little bit of his original intention, so don't let the two of us talk about the second, and don't talk about each other."

Zhang Shenghui grabbed the beer bottle and smiled: "In that case, let's toast to the lost moral bottom line."

"Ding!"

Zhou Andong picked up the beer bottle in front of him and touched it lightly with the beer bottle in Zhang Shenghui's hand, then raised his neck and drank the whole bottle of beer in one breath.

Wu Hongkang held the beer bottle, shook it lightly at the two, and said with a smile: "You two have lost your moral bottom line, should I throw away my retained original intention, so as not to be isolated by you?"

Zhou Andong shook his head and said seriously: "With you here, I have a mirror in front of Old Zhang to reflect my true self. If you also throw away your original intention, we will quickly fall into the bottomless abyss, which is absolutely not allowed."

Hearing this, Zhang Shenghui couldn't help but burst into laughter, and at the same time stretched out his finger to point at Zhou Andong, teasing: "Old Zhou, I really admire you from the bottom of my heart, your ability to be serious and talk nonsense!"

"What is talking nonsense." Zhou Andong said very dissatisfied: "Old Wu is our mirror. I don't know what you think in your heart, but at least every time I face Old Wu, I can't help but start to reflect, wondering if I have done anything bad recently."

Hearing this, Zhang Shenghui's mouth twitched fiercely, and he sighed secretly in his heart, thinking that he had underestimated Zhou Andong's thickness.

Even such ghost talk that he didn't believe himself could be said without changing his face or heart.

Hearing Zhou Andong's praise for himself, Wu Hongkang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and the whole person seemed to be floating to the clouds.

He excitedly held the beer bottle in his hand high, his face full of bright smiles, and said loudly: "It is enough to have a confidant like you in life. Old Zhou, come, I toast you!"

After speaking, Wu Hongkang put the bottle mouth to his mouth and raised his head to drink.

Zhou Andong squinted at Zhang Shenghui on the side, with a hint of imperceptible smile in his eyes. Immediately after, he also quickly raised the beer bottle he had just opened and smiled generously at Wu Hongkang.

"Old Wu, it's not that I'm bragging, I, this person, can be said to be full of highlights. But if you want to say which one is the most dazzling, it is naturally honesty."

"I have always said what I have to say, never hiding it. Good is good, bad is bad, and I will never play those vain things with people."

After hearing this, Wu Hongkang nodded repeatedly, his expression very serious and serious: "I believe this deeply. We have been friends for so long, can I not know your character?"

"Soulmate!" The smile on Zhou Andong's face was so bright that people couldn't open their eyes: "Come, Old Wu, for our pure and flawless, rock-solid friendship and that unreserved trust, drink happily!"

Zhang Shenghui, who was sitting on the side, looked at Wu Hongkang, looking like he hated iron for not becoming steel, and scolded: "Old Wu, I really don't know what to say about you. Have you forgotten when he pitted you?"

Zhou Andong glanced at Zhang Shenghui and skillfully broke a pistachio with his hand and threw it into his mouth: "Old Zhang, you are really not authentic."

"Why do you only remember my bad points, but selectively forget my more good points? This won't work, you will slowly have no friends."

Zhang Shenghui made a cold hum in his nose, and the expression on his face was very disdainful: "Put away your set, I'm not as easy to deceive as Old Wu."

Zhou Andong shook his head lightly, full of regret: "Just now I was saying that I want to be a confidant without a moral bottom line. But looking at the situation now, a confidant can't be done, so let's be ourselves."

"Can you two stop pinching as soon as you meet." Wu Hongkang looked helpless: "Talk about business, I have already got the shares of Brave the World and put them in my son's name."

Speaking of business, Zhang Shenghui also put away his jokes: "I have also handled it here, and the shares are registered in my brother-in-law's name."

"Old Zhang, I remember you have a daughter." Zhou Andong said with a smile: "Why didn't you think about putting the shares in your own precious daughter's name?"

Before Zhang Shenghui could respond, Wu Hongkang took the conversation and explained with a smile: "He wanted to, but his daughter is only fourteen years old this year and is not yet an adult, so there is no way to operate this."

Speaking of this, Wu Hongkang suddenly thought of something and looked at Zhang Shenghui: "Old Zhang, my youngest son is exactly twenty years old this year and is currently a junior in college."

"Your daughter is fourteen years old this year, younger than my son. I will let my youngest son wait for your daughter to grow up."

"You don't look very good, but you think very beautifully." Zhang Shenghui said unceremoniously: "Not to mention how big the age gap is, just look at your youngest son's appearance. If I really let my daughter marry into your house, it wouldn't be stuck in cow dung, but fell into a fire pit."

Wu Hongkang laughed loudly. He reached out and touched his cheek lightly, full of confidence: "You, my appearance, although not comparable to Pan An, but it is not so ugly, right?"

"When my wife was young, she was also a famous beauty in the ten miles and eight villages. Look at my daughter and eldest son, they all inherited their mother's excellent genes, and their appearance is impeccable."

"Only my youngest son, neither like his mother nor like me. If it weren't for the fact that my wife was the only one in the delivery room at the hospital, and I personally took the child from the nurse's hand, I would really doubt if this child was held wrongly."

Zhou Andong asked Zhang Shenghui curiously: "You dislike the appearance of Old Wu's son, is your daughter very beautiful?"

Mentioning his daughter, a proud smile immediately appeared on Zhang Shenghui's face: "Whether she looks good or not, I, as a father, can't boast, but I am quite proud of her studies."

"From elementary school to junior high school, her grades have always been in the top three in the grade, and she is the first in the grade most of the time. So, I am discussing with her mother, planning to send her abroad to study."

"Old Zhang!" Zhou Andong picked up the beer bottle and took a sip, then put it down slowly: "You let the child study abroad. After the child graduates and returns to China to develop, whether it is choosing to enter an enterprise as a senior manager, or coming out to break through and do some business, there is definitely no problem."

"Even if you take a step back, you want the child to enter a government agency to work, to be a stable and ordinary civil servant, that is also no problem. But don't think about letting the child achieve something in his official career. This road is probably not easy to walk."

Hearing this, not only Zhang Shenghui, but even Wu Hongkang on the side looked at Zhou Andong with full of doubts.

Although it is not comparable to the previous years, talent is scarce, and many college students have begun to choose their own jobs.

But for high-end talents like overseas students, they are still quite scarce resources in China.

As long as they return from studying abroad, no matter what school they are from, all departments and units are scrambling for them.

How did it become another meaning in Zhou Andong's mouth?

Zhou Andong looked at Zhang Shenghui and continued to speak slowly: "Old Zhang, if it weren't for the iron-clad relationship between us, I would never say the words just now even if I were beaten to death."

"Old Huo has already submitted the document to the center, and there will inevitably be targeted arrangements above. It is not to say that the road for overseas students to become civil servants will be blocked."

"It's just that from now on, for overseas students to enter government agencies, in addition to stricter political review, there may also be an assessment period of at least three years or even up to five years."

"And during the assessment period, you cannot be promoted. How many years does a person's political career have in total? If it is delayed by these three or five years, it will definitely form a huge gap that is difficult to cross with people who participate in work at the same time."

Zhang Shenghui opened his mouth and was about to speak, but his words had not yet come out, and he was interrupted by Zhou Andong waving his hand.

"Don't ask, even if you ask, I can't say it anymore. Moreover, this matter is not so difficult to choose. The key lies in how the child wants to go in the future."

"If she wants to be a civil servant and embark on the path of politics, then attending a good university in China can also achieve the goal. There is no need to go to a foreign country to study."

"In fact, the moon in foreign countries is really not as round and bright as the legend. The darkness in those places where the sun cannot shine is worse than anywhere else in the world. If the child has no intention of politics at all, then studying abroad is irrelevant."

Zhang Shenghui pondered Zhou Andong's words. He believed that Zhou Andong would not joke about such things and deceive him by talking nonsense, but this was related to his daughter's future path, so he had to be cautious.

As for Wu Hongkang, what he thought was simple at this time. Zhou Andong could say such words, it must be reasonable, and he would never shoot without a target. In the future, whoever in the family wants to go abroad to study, he must explain the pros and cons to them clearly. ===== CHAPTER 2243 =====